{"id":413,"date":"2014-03-08T16:51:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T16:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmir-today.net\/lanka-beats-pakistan-to-win-asia-cup-2014-title\/"},"modified":"2014-03-08T16:51:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T16:51:00","slug":"lanka-beats-pakistan-to-win-asia-cup-2014-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=413","title":{"rendered":"Lanka beats Pakistan to win Asia Cup 2014 title"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div><span style=\"background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Sri Lanka beat Pakistan by 5 wickets to win the final of the Asia Cup one-day cricket tournament at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Dhaka.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: #f6f6f6; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #111111;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kashmir.watch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1912068_10152244209285798_1628331061_n.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/kashmir.watch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1912068_10152244209285798_1628331061_n.jpg\" height=\"382\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"background: #F6F6F6;\">In-form Sri Lankan opener Lahiru Thirimanne hit an 101 and Mahela Jayawardene scored 75 to guide their team to a comfortable win over defending champions Pakistan. Sri Lanka reached the target of 261 in 46.2 overs.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"background: #F6F6F6;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"background: #F6F6F6;\">Earlier in the day, Fawad Alam&#8217;s maiden ODI century enabled Pakistan reach a respectable 260 for five against Sri Lanka after Lasith Malinga made early inroads in the Asia Cup final being played here today.<\/span><br style=\"outline: none;\" \/><br style=\"outline: none;\" \/><span style=\"background: #F6F6F6;\">Opting to bat, Pakistan were tottering for 18 for three as Malinga (5\/56) ripped apart the top order but Alam shared two century-plus partnerships with skipper Misbah-ul-Haq and Umar Akmal respectively to prop up their total.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka beat Pakistan by 5 wickets to win the final of the Asia Cup one-day cricket tournament at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Dhaka.&nbsp; In-form Sri Lankan opener Lahiru Thirimanne hit an 101 and Mahela Jayawardene scored 75 to guide their team to a comfortable win over defending champions Pakistan. Sri Lanka reached [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}